Harbor/Mooring Harbor Defense Concept

Abstract

The long-term goal of this work is an integrated defense system that provides protection of Navy assets, while in port, from the threat posed by covert swimmers. The general concept is to hail, deter, and/or incapacitate the threat by directing a controlled level of low-frequency acoustic energy at the target location. At the system level, the concept requires combining elements of target detection, classification, and tracking, localized fire control to direct acoustic energy using emplaced acoustic sources, and sources capable of delivering energy commensurate with the extant defense requirements

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2007
Accession Number
ADA542947

Entities

People

  • David L. Bradley
  • Kyle M. Becker

Organizations

  • Pennsylvania State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Fields
  • Acoustic Measurement
  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Acoustics
  • Boundaries
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Controlled Environment
  • Defense Systems
  • Detection
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Harbors
  • Measurement
  • Models
  • Prototypes
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Strategic Security Studies